Professional Experience
Linda Sanchez Ortega specializes in family-based immigration, humanitarian-based immigration, and removal defense. Prior to joining our team, Linda solidified herself as a skilled attorney at a prestigious immigration firm, where she also worked for several years as their EOIR manager, primarily working on removal defense cases before the Chicago Immigration Court.
During law school, Linda participated in her school’s immigration legal clinic and received three CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Legal Writing 3, Trial Advocacy 1, and ADR in the Workplace. Linda also volunteered at the Children’s Legal Center and Centro Romero, both non-profit organizations focused on providing free immigration legal services. Linda is an immigrant who personally navigated the complex U.S. immigration and persevered to become a first-generation attorney. In her free time, Linda enjoys running, painting, and traveling.
Practice Areas
- Family-Based Immigration
- Family-Based Petitions and Adjustment of Status
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Waivers of Inadmissibility
- Consular Process
- Citizenship and Naturalization
- Humanitarian-Based immigration
- Asylum
- VAWA and U Visa
- Removal Defense
Languages
- Fluent in Spanish
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of Illinois, November 2022
Education
- Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. – 2022
- Northeastern Illinois University, B.A. – 2016
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois
